The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has issued a Cybersecurity and Cyber-Resilience Directive focused on strengthening cybersecurity and cyber-resilience within the National Payment System. Since the financial sector plays a vital role in our economy, SARB expects all payment institutions [...]
On January 29, 2024, the Information Regulator organised a webinar to discuss the risks of false information in elections. They focused on “disinformation,” which is intentionally misleading false information, and “misinformation,” which is innocently sharing false information believing it [...]
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently released its Artificial Intelligence Strategy (CJEU AI Strategy). The CJEU recently shared its plan for dealing with artificial intelligence. This document not only helps us understand how the court views [...]
Every organisation has a duty of care to establish and maintain appropriate information security. The judgment in Hawarden vs ENS illustrates that no modern business can operate properly and lawfully without establishing and maintaining appropriate information security. The facts of [...]
At the recent IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC Tim Cook the CEO of Apple acknowledged that protecting privacy is not easy. He added ‘it is one of the most essential battles of our time’. Cook’s comments echo [...]
Data breach notification is both good business and required by law. What can we learn from the Regulator’s media statement on the Experian breach? Not if but when Commentators on cybersecurity warn “…it is not a question of if a [...]
